Oil prices surged as Houthi attacks and pipeline strikes shattered buffers, leaving diplomacy as the only escape from collapse.
Browsing: Crisis
Israel’s strategic crisis grows as Turkey rises, challenging Israeli dominance through Syria’s reconstruction and the Mecca defense pact.
Iraq’s elite fixates on political posts while oil exports plummet, militias strike neighbors, and economic collapse accelerates.
How four shocks—great-power, China, AI, and USA—are now dismantling global order and plunging the world into permanent crisis.
Iraq and Lebanon share the same sectarian disease. External pressure now offers both a rare opening for reform.
After February 2025 strikes, Iran’s leadership crisis forced the regime into collective rule, entrenching IRGC dominance while avoiding a coup.
The Iran War has laid bare a defense funding crisis that is now forcing the military to rob its future readiness to pay for today’s operations.
Asia’s energy dependence became a household crisis during the Iran war, forcing rationing and exposing deep infrastructure and coordination failures.
Deterrence alone failed to prevent the Gulf’s latest war. Helsinki’s Cold War lesson offers a new path for Gulf security.
America fired 1,700 Patriots in five weeks but builds only 600 per year. The industrial base cannot surge on command.